Academic Writing

In high school I read many academic readings for my AP composition class. I'm not going to lie, I didn't enjoy reading or writing about these articles but it had/has to be done to further my education. I didn't like reading these articles because they were lengthy and many of them had language that I couldn't understand so, it just made them more difficult to read. I don't have anything against the writers or what they were writing, it's just that I don't like to read academic writing. I'm also not a great writer, I'm more of a math/science brain, so writing is hard for me and the paper I wrote on academic writing was one of the worst I had done. 

Although I said all these things I don't like about academic writing, there are some things that I do like. I like that it teaches you about the topic and helps you further your education. Sometimes I enjoy reading academic writing when the topic engages me. It is also very helpful if the authors of the academic writing make their text flow so it becomes easier to read and understand. I don't really like reading academic writing, but I do understand that we read it to better our education and that's very important. 

Usually academic reading is hard for me but reading Teresa Thonney wasn't as hard as it usually is. Thonney's language was complex, but her writing flowed very well so it was easier for me to understand. Thonney's article was also very informative and I actually enjoyed reading it. I also really liked that Thonney separated her ideas into six main points, her doing this helped me better understand what she was talking about. This writing strategy that Thonney used made reading academic writing flow well. Throughout her article Thonney proves her point by backing it up with evidence. Thonney describes many strategies that any type of writer could use and how useful they can be. Thonney describes in point number three that, "academic writers acknowledge that others might disagree with the position they're taken." (pg. 48) I relate to this because in my high school I wrote a TON of essays about arguments between two different academic pieces. Although reading and analyzing this piece helped me gain knowledge I still know that I am going to struggle writing an essay about it. Overall, I really enjoyed Thonney's writing, but I'm not excited for more analysis of academic writing.